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> however, my atavistic dislike of angle brackets took over and I ended up > removing all the structural information specific to a dictionary: That's probably the wrong way to use XML. > I'm not sure if I follow this line of reasoning... after all, the > "raison d'être" of an element is to provide meta-data about the > content. Sure. Is it more important that the value of an integer, or that the value is, well, a value? >.. should attributes be viewed as meta-data about the content or > the element itself? Welcome to an xml-dev permathread. > What's the benefit of using an element attribute to define the type > versus using a different element altogether? Generic tools and xpath expressions, etc., only have to know about one tag. "All entries with the value 10" -- do you care if it's a string or an int? /r$ -- Rich Salz, Chief Security Architect DataPower Technology http://www.datapower.com XS40 XML Security Gateway http://www.datapower.com/products/xs40.html XML Security Overview http://www.datapower.com/xmldev/xmlsecurity.html
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